Book Summary
The rattle of a rattlesnake can be a chilling sound, and we often think of rattlesnakes as the enemy. This book provides a balanced look at these snakes, how they live, and the good that they do. It also offers advice on how to avoid being bitten and what to do if you are bitten.

About the Lesson 

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Identify main idea and supporting details
• Identify words that tell where or how (adverbial phrases)
• Recognize and use words with suffixes -tion, -ion
• Read and understand content vocabulary

Materials

• Book - Rattlers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry-erase board
• Main Idea, Adverbial Phrases, Suffixes, Content Words worksheets
• Word journal (optional)

    Indicates an opportunity to use the book interactively (all activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not consumable)

Vocabulary

• Content words: caterpillar, hibernating, pit vipers, cold-blooded, fangs, venom, serpentine, sidewinding, buzztail, molt, prey, rattle